{"id":136184,"date":"2022-02-28T11:24:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T19:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/hackers-attack-train-network-to-stop-putins-troops-moving-to-ukraine"},"modified":"2022-02-28T11:24:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T19:24:01","slug":"hackers-attack-train-network-to-stop-putins-troops-moving-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/hackers-attack-train-network-to-stop-putins-troops-moving-to-ukraine","title":{"rendered":"Hackers attack train network to stop Putin\u2019s troops moving to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-attack-train-network-to-stop-putins-troops-moving-to-ukraine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hackers claimed that the attack was to \u201cslow down the transfer\u201d of troops moving from Belarus to northern Ukraine, saying that they had put the trains in \u201cmanual control\u201d mode which would \u201csignificantly slow down the movement of trains, but will not create emergency situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An ideological aversion to high-stakes situations has been expressed by other hacking groups. Anonymous, which has claimed a number of attacks on Russia\u2019s banks and services, the websites of the President of the Russian Federation and Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defence, has said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tech\/anonymous-vladimir-putin-yacht-fckptn-b2024780.html\">critical infrastructure is a \u201cno-go\u201d due to the risk of exacerbating the already tumultuous situation in eastern Europe.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sergei Voitehowich, a former employee of Belarus\u2019s state-owned Belarus Railway company, said that the Cyber Partisans had damaged the train traffic control system and that while it has been restored, other systems were experiencing issues and making it \u201cimpossible to buy tickets\u201d, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-02-27\/belarus-hackers-allegedly-disrupted-trains-to-thwart-russia\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hackers claimed that the attack was to \u201cslow down the transfer\u201d of troops moving from Belarus to northern Ukraine, saying that they had put the trains in \u201cmanual control\u201d mode which would \u201csignificantly slow down the movement of trains, but will not create emergency situations.\u201d An ideological aversion to high-stakes situations has been expressed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}